a high court is nearing the end of a remarkable six hours of arguments on four separate issues arising from the affordable care act of 2010. the session that began last hour is due to wrap up 45 minutes from now. soon after that the final health care arguments will center on the power of the feds to compel states to broaden medicaid coverage. we don t expect any decisions until june at the earliest, but our jeff toobin and kate baldwin will step out of the courthouse to bring us up to speed when the what if arguments are over today at the u.s. supreme court. the facts surrounding trayvon martin s death are getting more complicated by the day. so far there have been conflicting reports as to what exactly happened and whether george zimmerman was really acting in self-defense when he shot trayvon martin in the chest. now shocking new evidence that sanford police were taking steps to arrest zimmerman early in the investigation. the miami herald reports the police incident re
to have health insurance. it s scheduled to take effect in 2014. it imposes a financial penalty for not having health insurance. let s get right to today s hearing. what went on inside the court. our senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin and our congressional correspondent kate baldwin were both inside the courtroom. jeff, you said based on what you heard in the courtroom, you think the court is likely right now to overturn this individual mandate. you just tweeted, i was looking at your twitter, you tweeted this was a train wreck for the obama administration. what happened? well, you saw right out of the bofrm three conservative justices just go after the solicitor general donald ver rilly. anthony scalia not a surprise. samuel, and anthony kennedy also who is usually the swing vote, expressing nothing but skepticism about the constitutionality. clarence thomas didn t say anything. john roberts to my surprise was the most sympathetic of the conservatives to the obama adminis
okay, well that s kind of a bold prediction in a state where recent polling shows him trailing governor mitt romney by a few points. governor romney may have found added momentum with his win, he captured 83% of the vote, all 20 delegates. rick santorum was not able to garner much support. his own camp admitted damage was done when he told a local newspaper speaking english should be a requirement for puerto row coto gain state hood. rick santorum has a consistent show and when he went to puerto rico and took a locally unpopular it s hard to get through it. shocking. mitt romney on the other hand switched another of his positions to gain favor in puerto rico saying puerto ricans shouldn t have to learn english if they want to become a state. romney has twice as many delegates as any other candidates. tally he stands at 518 for governor romney. senator santorum with 239, newt gingrich has 139 and ron paul has 69 delegates for that congressman. so we re going to get
repeatedly, shelling, tank fire, nearly 100 civilians have reportedly been killed and now a russian official is in damascus to meet with the regime. we are going to figure out exactly how that will play out in the effort to end the carnage there. we have new information about final moments for josh powell and his two little boys. what the coroner says he did to his two little boys before he set the house on fire. and on the political front, a lot of delegates, up for grabs. 70, in fact, in the states that are actually offering them up. three states at play tonight. is rick santorum sitting a lot prettier than he has been in states past? we ll let you know. the dark side of camelot. this is an explosive new memoir. it claims that john f. kennedy had an affair with a teenage intern. he was in his 40s, she was 19. first up, we want to get to the situation in syria growing so desperate by the hour. take a look at the video and hear the sounds. it s remarkable. these are sce
in just a few hours results will start coming in from today s republican triple-header caucuses in colorado, minnesota and a primary in missouri up for grabs. dozens of delegates, but perhaps more importantly momentum. the front-runner mitt romney s campaign is anticipating a potential setback as his rivals look for an opportunity. our jim acosta is in denver. reporter: we re going to turn around and look at this screen back here, because mitt romney will talk to us from his bus. reporter: with a snowstorm slowing him down, he ran about an hour later, so he skyped to the crowd, a sign that not everything was going his way on this caucus day. colorado has something to say about who our nominees will be, and i think i will be that nominee. a strategy memo was released. saying the campaign is anticipating possibly a loss. we expect our opponents to notch a few wins, too. the memo red cued newt gingrich s plans to boasting romney would triumph in the west, suggesting